6 Dec
2010
6 Dec
'10
12:10 a.m.
On 12/06/2010 12:00 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 12:36:39PM -0800, Mark Knecht
wrote:
maybe you already knew but here's a "workaround" for X:
xset b off
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Ivan K
<ivan_521521(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm more pro-Intel since a close encounter with an i5.
I now have a Thinkpad 410 with i5-M560 that is (mostly)
Linux-friendly, runs cool and is power thrifty.
* The Intel supplied driver sources work for the integrated GPU
under a recent kernel. (I'm using 2.6.36.)
* Important Fn-key combinations work.
* Beeps are still audible with the alsamixer beep control muted. :-(
My thinking is that for multi-core 64bit, there are less expensive
than intel. Am I wrong about this? What multi-core intel 64bit processors
are people buying?
--- On Sun, 12/5/10, rosea.grammostola <rosea.grammostola(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why AMD? Just interest...
>
> \r
In the last year:
Two i5-661 - 2 cores, 4 threads (4GB DRAM)
One i7-820 - 4 cores, 8 threads (8GB DRAM + 2 disk RAID1)
One i7-980x - 6 cores, 12 threads (24GB DRAM + 3 disk RAID1 + 2 disk RAID0)
The Intel processors seem (to me) to be more power conscience lately.
Don't forget to add up the incremental cost of electricity over the
next few years running a processor without hyper-threading if you go
that way. You might be better off spending a little more up front to
save a lot in the long term. * I'll be replacing the Realtek rtl8192se wireless
card.
This is after fruitless hours compiling/fiddling stale
drivers and equally stale ndiswrapper.
* I haven't tested the firewire. It is Ricoh e832 chipset,
and appears to work, with some problems reported when
the BIOS is set to allow virtual machines. The jack
is the mini size.
My previous notebook, Toshiba Satellite L305D had an AMD
Turion x2 QL-64 processor, and run an H2O BIOS. It tended to
overheat, always needed to be set up on books for better
airflow, and was on only (barely) acceptable with clock
fixed to 1GHz.
I suppose I could have bought an external cooler.
But then the LCD developed problems...
Cheers,
Joel
> - Mark